From markets and food stalls to the unlikely setting of convenience storesĪn essential stop is the city’s traditional markets. If you make the trek up here, a worthwhile detour is the nearby Seoul Urban Life Museum, which takes visitors through the modern history of the capital’s denizens, from the ramen they ate to the music they played. Ssangmun-dong doesn’t really have any tourist attractions, but has a mix of newer developments and the kind of modest streets recreated in Squid Game’s notorious “Gganbu” episode. A woman pours makgeolli into a bowl inside a bar in Seoul (Photo: Getty)
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The enormously popular TV series Reply 1988, about a group of friends coming of age in the run-up to the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and the beloved cartoon Dooly The Little Dinosaur were also set there. It’s no accident that Squid Game’s two central characters, Gi-hun and Sang-woo, hail from this neighbourhood in far north-eastern Seoul, as the area has long been something of an Everytown in the Korean imagination. Favoured film settingĪ good place to start might be Ssangmun-dong. “I enjoy walking through small streets, where humanity shines brighter, where people grow and dry their own vegetables, where neighbours chat under trees,” says Stephane Mot, a writer and long-time Seoul resident who played one of the Squid Game VIPs.
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